THE KING'S HALL AND COLLEGE OF BRASENOSE IN OXFORD

Registered charity 1143447 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q899030 · Wikipedia · also known as BRASENOSE COLLEGE

BRASENOSE IS A COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, WHOSE OBJECT IS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, LEARNING, RELIGION AND RESEARCH, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THROUGH THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND CONDUCT OF A PERPETUAL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE IS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, LEARNING, RELIGION AND RESEARCH, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THROUGH THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND CONDUCT OF A PERPETUAL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Area of benefit: OXFORDSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased by £6.83m to £234.60m, with unrestricted funds decreasing by £0.99m to £27.92m. The College reports free reserves of £4.7m, which is below its stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of expected expenditure, and plans to rebuild these reserves over the next few years. The College has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BRASENOSE LIMITED Companies House 02904934

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £318k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Sheen
• Dr ANNE EDWARDS MA FRCP
• Dr EDWARD BISPHAM
• Dr Katrina Lythgoe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Oleksandr Borodavka
• Freyja Faline Baalith Madsen
• John Bowers KC
• Julia Diamantis
• Michael Dustin
• PROF ABIGAIL GREEN
• PROF ANNE DAVIES
• PROF CHRISTOPHER MCKENNA
• PROF DAVID GROISER
• PROF EAMONN GAFFNEY
• PROF ERIC THUN
• PROF MARK WILSON
• PROF OWEN LEWIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROF SIMON PALFREY
• PROF THOMAS KREBS
• PROF WILLIAM SWADLING
• PROFESSOR JONATHAN JONES
• Philip Christopher Liam Parker · trustee of 5 other charities
• Prof ALAN STRATHERN
• Prof Adam Perry
• Prof CHRISTOPHER TIMPSON
• Prof Deborah Mary Grant
• Prof Dejan Draschkow
• Prof Faraz Mardakheh
• Prof Fitnat Banu Demir
• Prof Iain Kiaer
• Prof Jonathan Adam Knappett
• Prof Katerina Tertytchnaya
• Prof Konstantin Ardakov
• Prof Perla Maiolino
• Prof SOS ELTIS
• Prof Simon Shogry
• Prof Sneha Krishnan
• Prof Sonali Nag
• Prof Valentina Arena
• Prof lionel Smith

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Philip Christopher Liam Parker — trustee here and at HULME TRUST ESTATES (EDUCATIONAL)

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.

• THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD income £19.9m
• ST EDMUND HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £15.5m
• WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD income £20.3m
• THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMONLY CALLED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £23.4m
• THE KING'S COLLEGE OF OUR LADY AND SAINT NICHOLAS IN CAMBRIDGE income £24.4m
• JESUS COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £13.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.